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... town . • • 809 CHAPTER XXXVIII . A newspaper attack . - The Evans affray . - Johnson's comment . CHAPTER XXXIX . • 821 Boswell in Holy - Week . - Dinner at Oglethorpe's .-- Dinner at Paoli's . - The policy of truth . Goldsmith affects ...
... town . • • 809 CHAPTER XXXVIII . A newspaper attack . - The Evans affray . - Johnson's comment . CHAPTER XXXIX . • 821 Boswell in Holy - Week . - Dinner at Oglethorpe's .-- Dinner at Paoli's . - The policy of truth . Goldsmith affects ...
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... town of Ardagh , and , accosting the first person he met , inquired , with somewhat of a consequential air , for the best house in the place . Unluckily , the person he had accosted was one Kelly , a notorious wag , who was quartered in ...
... town of Ardagh , and , accosting the first person he met , inquired , with somewhat of a consequential air , for the best house in the place . Unluckily , the person he had accosted was one Kelly , a notorious wag , who was quartered in ...
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... town , who be- guiled him into a gambling - house , and soon left him as penniless . as when he bestrode the redoubtable Fiddle - back . He was so ashamed of this fresh instance of gross heedless- ness and imprudence , that he remained ...
... town , who be- guiled him into a gambling - house , and soon left him as penniless . as when he bestrode the redoubtable Fiddle - back . He was so ashamed of this fresh instance of gross heedless- ness and imprudence , that he remained ...
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... trunk there , containing all his worldly effects , and sallied forth to see the town . After sauntering about the streets until a late hour , he thought of returning home , when , to his confusion , he found he had not acquainted himself.
... trunk there , containing all his worldly effects , and sallied forth to see the town . After sauntering about the streets until a late hour , he thought of returning home , when , to his confusion , he found he had not acquainted himself.
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... towns you are charmed beyond description . No misery is to be seen here ; every one is usefully employed . " And again , in his noble description in " The Trav eller : " " To men of other minds my fancy flies , Imbosom'd in the deep ...
... towns you are charmed beyond description . No misery is to be seen here ; every one is usefully employed . " And again , in his noble description in " The Trav eller : " " To men of other minds my fancy flies , Imbosom'd in the deep ...
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Page 23 - For, e'en though vanquished, he could argue still, While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around; And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 247 - ... bowers to lay me down; To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flame from wasting by repose; I still had hopes — for pride attends us still — Amidst the swains to show my...
Page 21 - His house was known to all the vagrant train ; He chid their wanderings, but relieved their pain.
Page 210 - ... the true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
Page 248 - tis hard to combat, learns to fly! For him no wretches, born to work and weep, Explore the mine, or tempt the dangerous deep; No surly porter stands in guilty state, To spurn imploring famine from the gate: But on he moves to meet his latter end, Angels around befriending virtue's friend; Sinks to the grave with unperceived decay, While Resignation gently slopes the way; And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Page 21 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Page 288 - Lusiad," and I, went to visit him at this place a few days afterwards. He was not at home ; but having a curiosity to see his apartment, we went in, and found curious scraps of descriptions of animals, scrawled upon the wall with a black lead pencil.
Page 188 - For instance (said he), the fable of the little fishes, who saw birds fly over their heads, and, envying them, petitioned Jupiter to be changed into birds. The skill (continued he) consists in making them talk like little fishes.
Page 42 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labor free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Page 282 - But, Sir, when people live together who have something as to which they disagree, and which they want to shun, they will be in the situation mentioned in the story of Bluebeard : ' You may look into all the chambers but one.' But we should have the greatest inclination to look into that chamber, to talk of that subject.